Author:James Thomson (1700-1748)

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James Thomson (1700–1748)

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Scottish poet and dramatist

James Thomson

Works

• Rule, Britannia!
• The Castle of Indolence
• The Seasons
• The Smoaker Smoak'd

Anthologized:

• In Poems and Extracts (1905) by William Wordsworth:

  Hymn on Solitude

  "Thus safely low, my Friend, thou canst not fall"

  "As those we love decay, we die in part"

Works about Thomson

• “Thomson, James (1700-1748),” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons
• “Thomson, James (1700-1748),” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.

Parodies of Thomson

• Imitation III in A Pipe of Tobacco by Isaac Hawkins Browne

On his works

• “Seasons, The,” in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)